A friend of mine just told me that her boss whose business is importing and selling German-made machinery to various US manufacturing plants had his most profitable year in 1998 (he has been in business for over 40 years). Last year his business was all but dead. The USA stopped being a country which manufactures anything. It only knows how to import and resell.
What struck me is that his best year was just 11 years ago. So it took this little for the richest country in the world to come from prosperity to a perpetual decline. It is really shocking how little time an idiot needs to ruin a country!
An old appliance repair guy who came to my house recently was talking wearily about his country and people who run it, "First they moved all the jobs overseas, and now they play shocked to find out that we have high unemployment." He also mentioned that since all appliances started being made in China, he noticed a drastic change in their quality for the worse. He gave me one example: before, some metal parts and contacts were made out of solid thick metal, and now they are so thin that even a small power surge fries them. The replacement pars also come from China and have the same quality.
Incidentally, a family member who was recently skiing in the Rockies, told me that there were very few other tourists in the hotels and on the slopes, compared to previous years. I told her to memorize everything she is seeing around her, for chances are this is all going to be gone before long. She laughed sarcastically and said, "Obviously! Now that Obama is going to build socialism in this country, everything is going to be ruined!" This family member has a much higher formal education than the appliance repair guy, but evidently, lacks his common sense.
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